A research lab at ICTA-UAB
A Visual Guide to Building a Healthier Work-Life Balance
Our lab is committed to ensuring that its members are able to flourish both in their personal and professional lives. This is particularly important in the scientific community, which is highly demanding and has few formal structures or firm boundaries. In the face of such challenges, we have collectively designed a set of policies, practices, and guidelines designed to help every lab member—and other colleagues and fellow researchers—keep their work and life in balance and build a greater ethics of care. In doing so, we are building on the principles of the Jay Vanbavel lab at NYU, to whom we are grateful for their inspiration and support.
10 Drivers of Urban Injustice
A graphic outline of our 10 drivers of urban injustice, as part of our UrbanA project which aims to co-creatively synthesise and broker knowledge for sustainable and just cities and translate this knowledge into action. Make sure to watch our 10-part video series in which our director Isabelle Anguelovski and researcher Panagiota explain the main drivers of urban injustice related to sustainability.
Urban Environmental Justice
A Visual Harvest of our Webinar on Urban Environmental Justice
How can we transform our cities into socially & ecologically just places? Check out this graphic harvest created by illustrator Carlotta Cataldi from our recent webinar on urban environmental Justice and green gentrification.
Policy and Planning Toolkit for Urban Justice
Our policy and planning toolkit created in partnership with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability contains a series of tools to help municipal planners find ways of providing affordable housing while also improving green equity and ensuring that new green spaces benefit rather than displace local residents.
The toolkit features:
- 30 anti-displacement/anti-gentrification policy tools organized by stakeholder type
- 20 equitable green development tools
- Simulations of possible applications of policy tools depending on urban context
- Recommendations for policy-makers in the EU, North American, and global contexts
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We strive to build a more gender-balanced and feminist academia. In that process, we realize the importance of confronting unequal, unhealthy, and imbalanced practices within the broader research world and are inspired by transformative, radical practices in academia and beyond. Here is a list of useful resources related to gender, academia and practice produced by journalists, research collectives, research labs and civic leaders that we hope can support our work and that of others.
News articles & Websites
The Effects of Gender Discrimination on Women’s Mental Health – Sunshine Behavioral Health
Caribbean Feminisms: A Reading List – Black Women Radicals
Feminists Theorize COVID-19 – Signs Journal
Manifesto for a feminist perspective on new cycling infrastructure in Barcelona – Punt6
Estereotipos implícitos que frenan las carreras de las mujeres, por Marta Macho – elPeriodico
A City of Our Own: Urban Feminism for the 99% – Failed Architecture
Female scientists use less positive language about their work, study finds – The Guardian
La trampa del ‘trabajo doméstico’ universitario lastra la carrera de las profesoras – El Pais
There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’ – The New York Times
500 Women Scientists – Database to request a woman a scientist
Integrating under-represented scholars into my syllabi – Raul Pacheco-Vega, 2015
Seminario Interdisciplinar de Metodología de Investigación Feminista
Publications
Turning Chutes into Ladders for Women Faculty: A Review and Roadmap for Equity in Academia – Journal of Women’s Health 2020
Time and Care in the “Lab” and the “Field”: Slow Mentoring and Feminist Research in Geography – Geographical Review 2020
The Lancet’s Feb 9 2019 issue, on advancing women in science, medicine, and global health
Subversión Feminista de la Economía – Amaia Perez Orozco 2019
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions – PLOS Biology 2019
Twitter Women’s Tips on Academic Writing: A Female Response to Gioia’s Rules of the Game – Journal of Management Inquiry 2019
Feminist Leadership in the Academy: Exploring Everyday Praxis – Kris De Welde 2019
Planning the everyday/everynight : a feminist participatory action research with women nightshift workers – Sara Ortiz Escalante 2019
Urbanismo Feminista – Punt 6 2019
Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia – Kelly J. Baker 2018
Testing the concept of academic housework in a European setting: Part of academic career-making or gendered barrier to the top? – Thamar M Heijstra, 2017
Why do women choose or reject careers in academic medicine? A narrative review of empirical evidence – The Lancet 2016
Nanopolitics Handbook – 2013
Women Working. Urban assessment guide from a gender perspective – Col·lectiu Punt 6 2015
Planning from below: using feminist participatory methods to increase women’s participation in planning – Sara Ortiz Escalante 2015
Toolkit of Gender Equality in Academia and Research by the European Institute for Gender Equality
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care – Joan C. Tronto 1993
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective – Donna Haraway 1988
Landesman, T. (2018) The imperative of feminist thought in urban geography: an example from Rio de Janeiro, Gender, Place & Culture, 25:3, 455-459.
Fine (2018) The art of medicine Feminist science: who needs it? The Lancet, 392:1302-1303Leszczynski, A., & Elwood, S. (2015). Feminist geographies of new spatial media. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 59(1), 12-28.
Parker, B. (2016). Feminist forays in the city: Imbalance and intervention in urban research methods. Antipode, 48(5), 1337-1358.
Ortiz Escalante, S., & Gutiérrez Valdivia, B. (2015). Planning from below: using feminist participatory methods to increase women’s participation in urban planning. Gender & Development, 23(1), 113-126.
Rodó-de-Zárate, M. (2014). Developing geographies of intersectionality with Relief Maps: reflections from youth research in Manresa, Catalonia. Gender, place & culture, 21(8), 925-944.
Elwood, S. (2008). Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS. GeoJournal, 72(3-4), 173-183.
Pavlovskaya, M., & Martin, K. S. (2007). Feminism and geographic information systems: From a missing object to a mapping subject. Geography Compass, 1(3), 583-606.
Kindon, S. (2003). Participatory video in geographic research: a feminist practice of looking? Area, 35(2), 142-153.
McIntyre, A. (2003). Through the eyes of women: photovoice and participatory research as tools for reimagining place. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 10(1), 47-66.